Nintendo Working on Achievement/Trophy System for Switch, Says Indie Dev

"We know that they're working on it."

By
Matt Davidson

The Nintendo Switch may soon be joining the ranks of other consoles by introducing an integrated Achievement or Trophy system, if the words of a group of indie developers are to be believed.

During a Reddit AMA, the team behind Lichtspeer, which is coming to Switch, were asked about whether the game supported online rankings; in the reply, team member Tom indicated that they were hoping to add rankings "along the way", also dropping an intriguing little nugget:

"Nintendo doesn't have an official support for Achievements and Leaderboards, like Sony or Microsoft, but we know that they're working on it."

When called out on it, Tom responded with a guilty "Oops" before adding that he thinks Nintendo "hinted it a few times".

If these devs are to be believed then Nintendo is working away behind the scenes on some kind of Achievement system, but as of now we have no idea what that might look like. It should also be noted that Nintendo has made no official comment on this; as always, anything unconfirmed by Nintendo should be taken with a pinch of salt.

Lichtspeer is a game about "throwing laser spears in an Ancient Germanic Future", which the team previously released on PS4, PS Vita and PC to positive feedback but limited financial success. Following the game's original release, the developer was approached by Nintendo with an offer to rework it for the Switch. The game launched on Switch as Lichtspeer: Double Speer Edition this past week.

Matt Davidson is a freelance writer for IGN who would like a Breath of the Wild Achievement for "amount of objects accidentally incinerated while attempting to cook". Give him a follow on Twitter.